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 Regular expression
You can create a custom language dictionary using regular expressions.
e. Languages can have several additional properties. To change these properties, click
the Advanced… button.
The Advanced Language Properties dialog box will open. Here you can specify:
 Characters that can be in the beginning or end of a word
 Non–letter characters that appear separately from words
 Characters that may appear in the middle of words and should be ignored
 Characters that cannot appear in text that is recognized using this dictionary
(prohibited characters)
 All recognizable characters from the language
 You can also enable the Text may contain Arabic numerals, Roman
numerals, and abbreviations option
5. You can now select the newly created language when choosing document languages.
By default, the user language is saved in the FineReader document folder. You can also save all
user languages and user patterns as a single file. To do so, on the Tools menu, click Options… to
open the Options dialog box, click the Read tab, and then click the Save to File... button.
Creating a language group
If you are going to use a particular language combination regularly, you may wish to group the
languages together for convenience.
1. On the Tools menu, click Language Editor….
2. In the Language Editor dialog box, click New….
3. In the New Language or Group dialog box, select Create a new group of languages
and click OK.
4. In the Language Group Properties dialog box, type a name for your new group and
select the desired languages.
Note: If you know that your text will not contain certain characters, you may wish to explicitly
specify these so–called prohibited characters. Specifying prohibited characters can increase both
recognition speed and quality. To specify prohibited characters, click the Advanced… button in the
Language Group Properties dialog box. In the Advanced Language Group Properties dialog
box, type the prohibited characters in the Prohibited characters field.
5. Click OK.
The newly created group will be added to the Document Languages drop–down list on the main
toolbar.
By default, user language groups are saved in the FineReader document folder. You can also save
all user languages and user patterns as a single file. To do so, on the Tools menu, click Options…
to open the Options dialog box, click the Read tab, and then click the Save to File… button.
Tip: If you need a particular language combination for a document, you can also select the desired
languages directly, without creating a group.
1. From the Document Languages drop–down list, select More languages….
2. In the Language Editor dialog box, select Specify languages manually.
3. Select the desired languages and click Cancel.